Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi

Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, born Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal Rahman al-Mawla, was Caliph of the Islamic State from 31 October 2019, succeeding Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Biography
Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal Rahman al-Mawla was born in Iraq, and, using the nom de guerre "Haji Abdullah", he was a religious scholar for al-Qaeda in Iraq before steadily rising in the ranks before becoming a senior Islamic State commander. In the wake of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death in October 2019, al-Mawla was elected Caliph by the Islamic State shura council, assuming the nom de guerre "Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi" and claiming descent from Muhammad's Quraysh tribe. He inherited a frayed organization which had been reduced to scattered sleeper cells, and he attempted to pull the group back together as a fighting force.